I guess I'm an old man now because I am still rocking 1080p, 120Hz displays and am absolutely fine with it. Nothing I play is going to require a higher hertz rate (and I wouldn't notice the difference anyway) and I sit maybe 18" or so away from them.

So, 256K, 8Khz, ultrasurround, braincast monitors simply don't interest me. Especially at current prices. I do have a 4K, 120Hz 65" TV but running it in 4K with the HTPC is an exercise in counting the grains of sand on a beach from a 70s era satellite. I can upscale the GUI but that effectively negates running at 4K in the first place.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 6, 2018, 13:47:Granted I don't have the fastest machine on the planet, but it runs everything else fine. Star Citizen is a slide show, however. Might be a mem issue, as the hard drive light is constantly loading despite the game being loaded from SSD.

I think it is without a doubt a lack of optimization issue. I have 32GB and while it is not quite a slideshow, it's pretty sluggish. Granted, I hadn't played SC since 3.0 went live, but the last time I played I didn't have the same experience.

Simon Says wrote on Jan 3, 2018, 21:17:A storm in a teacup for "regular" users

But it isn't for where it matters most and that is in the enterprise sector. Unsurprisingly, that's also from where Intel makes most of its profit.

For example, in my organization, almost every "server" that a user sees, touches, or knows about is actually either a VM or a container. Those require serious throughput. The fix for this problem will greatly impact that throughput which will in turn impact user experience and cause increased work, support, and other ancillary costs as we have to spin up more VMs and containers to return performance to acceptable levels.

My fellow sysadmins and I have been emailing up a storm since this news broke even though we're all on vacation to come up with ways to mitigate this problem when we return. For us, and many enterprise environments, this is not a non-trivial problem and we are the "regular users" for the segment wherein this matters most.

Redmask wrote on Dec 31, 2017, 09:19:Those countries don't have 300 million gun owners to worry about, it's probably a lot easier to be friendly when you don't have to worry about every single person in the country having a gun.

See, that little bullshit nugget gets trotted out all the time and it is absolute nonsense. There are ~327 million people in the United States. Of those, 36% either own guns or have access to guns. Now, if I do the math that is ~118 million people. However, of that 36%, only about 12% actively handle their firearms. So that is ~14 million people. Or 4% of the total population. 4%.

That means that 96% of the entire United States are not actively handling their firearms or even using them infrequently to target practice. The overwhelming majority of the country is, for all intents and purposes, willfully unarmed. Yet cops, or their unions or the bought and paid for politicians, in the US act like they're in the middle of fucking Mogadishu in the middle of an active, volatile global conflict.

But, no, clearly all this murdering of civilians by police is the fault of unarmed civilians because, hey, 4 WHOLE FUCKING PERCENT OF THE NATIONAL POPULATION may or may not be armed at any given time.

Any more horseshit talking points that bootlickers like to trot out that need to be debunked?

There are no simple solutions to fix incompetence on this level of tragedy. However, a good first step is to charge, try, and convict the shooting cop with first degree murder.

I think it's interesting that there exists a wide gulf between the operational mindset of US cops and, well, pretty much any other police force in a first world country.

A few personal examples of this is as follows:

I generally tend to get up most days at 0400, grab a quick cup of tea, and go for a walk.

In Sydney, a policeman stopped and said "Hey mate. Are you all right? Are you lost?" He was genuinely inquiring as to my well being. He was also kind enough to tell me what areas to avoid that early in the morning.

In the US, I have been stopped, questioned as to where I came from, where I was going, why I was walking that early in the morning, and on two separate occasions had my then dog threatened who was sitting very calmly at my feet.

In Canada, I was visiting my in-laws in a relatively small town west of Toronto and was asked to stop at a nearby store to pick some things up. I freely admit that I became lost on the way back. This was in the days before GPS enabled cellphones and Google maps. A local policeman also stopped me and, when I said that I had gotten a bit turned around, gave me a ride back while chatting rather pleasantly. Turns out he had gone to high school with my wife and knew exactly where her parents lived.

The plural of anecdote is not data but in just those examples, there was a marked difference between how the police forces of three different countries perceive a person of the random public and how they chose to interact with them.

At this point, and with all the information that is available to a person, anyone who trusts cops or gives them the "benefit of the doubt" is either woefully naive or an active and willing participant in the abuse of power.

I'm shocked, utterly shocked, that a blue suited, jackbooted government thug has yet again murdered an unarmed civilian.

But, yeah, right...they're heroes. Heroes for slaughtering unarmed civilians posing no real, concrete threat. Heroes for destroying or burying evidence to keep from facing their actions. Heroes for not effectively or ethically cleansing the cancerous rot that goes to their very core.

Cutter wrote on Dec 27, 2017, 11:00:Yeah except who the hell wants a $100,000+ pickup truck with one seat? People either buy pickups for work or as family vehicles. The artist rendering makes it wholly impractical, electric or not. That looks like nothing more than a toy for city slickers to drive around.

There are people out there for sure that would buy that, but those that won't, are your typical truck owners, they'll want to stay gas/diesel as long as anybody. But there are people out there certainly.

Although I have had, and still continue to have, toy vehicles for fun and sunny weekends, I have had a truck as a daily driver for the entirety of my driving life. However, I am not adverse to an electric truck provided it offers the same utility as my current gas powered truck. It needs to be able to haul rock, hay, wood, camping gear, a trailer, a boat, and a bunch of other stuff I use a truck for. If an electric truck can do all that and still give me the 400ish mile range that my current gas powered truck can, I would consider it seriously.

Also, charge time needs to not be a pain in the ass. I've got a three prong, 220v, 50A outlet in the quonset hut so I would expect to plug the truck in when I got home and have it fully ready and available for the next day's usage.

Fuck Amber alerts while we're at it, too. I turn those off as well. I know, here's a really fucking solid plan:

1. Blare some skullfucking, ear piercing alarm at all hours of the day and night even when you have the audio disabled.2. Give the shittiest description known to man. Case in point "Brown Nissan. Plate OU812AZBA". Right, because when I am driving at 80 on the highway, I have time or the inclination to check every fucking plate of a brown Nissan at speed.

I don't care if its the goddamned Childlike Empress being kidnapped, there's zero cause to blare my fucking phone at 3am on a Wednesday because some kid 150 miles away may or may not be actually missing.